Endogenous entry, product variety, and business cycles

FO Bilbiie, F Ghironi, MJ Melitz - Journal of Political Economy, 2012 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper builds a framework for the analysis of macroeconomic fluctuations that
incorporates the endogenous determination of the number of producers and products over …

Monetary policy and business cycles with endogenous entry and product variety [with comments and discussion]

FO Bilbiie, F Ghironi, MJ Melitz… - NBER …, 2007 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper studies the role of endogenous producer entry and product creation for monetary
policy analysis and business cycle dynamics in a general equilibrium model with imperfect …

Endogenous market structures and the business cycle

F Etro, A Colciago - The Economic Journal, 2010 - academic.oup.com
We characterise endogenous market structures under Bertrand and Cournot competition in
a DSGE model. Short‐run mark ups vary countercyclically because of the impact of entry on …

The dynamic effects of a currency union on trade

PR Bergin, CY Lin - Journal of International Economics, 2012 - Elsevier
The response of trade to a monetary union is a dynamic process. An empirical study of the
European monetary union finds that the extensive margin of trade in new goods responded …

Firm entry, markups and the monetary transmission mechanism

V Lewis, C Poilly - Journal of Monetary Economics, 2012 - Elsevier
Two business cycle models with endogenous firm and product entry are estimated by
matching impulse responses to a monetary policy shock. The 'competition effect'implies that …

Aggregate-demand amplification of supply disruptions: The entry-exit multiplier

FO Bilbiie, MJ Melitz - 2020 - nber.org
Due to its impact on nominal firm profits, price rigidity amplifies the response of entry and exit
to adverse supply shocks, such as COVID-19. This “entry-exit multiplier” triggers substantial …

A tale of two life stages: The imprinting effect of macroeconomic contractions on later life entrepreneurship

P Sotirakopoulos, MP Mount, C Guven, A Ulker… - Journal of Business …, 2023 - Elsevier
Studies argue that macroeconomic contractions create immediate incentives for individuals
to pursue entrepreneurship. However, research has not addressed whether past …

Monetary policy, productivity, and market concentration

A Colciago, R Silvestrini - European Economic Review, 2022 - Elsevier
We identify a new channel through which monetary policy affects productivity at business
cycle frequencies. An unexpected monetary easing initially reduces average labor …

[PDF][PDF] Asset pricing with entry and imperfect competition

E Loualiche - Journal of Finance, forthcoming, 2016 - loualiche.com
I study the implications of fluctuations in new firm creation across industries on asset prices. I
write a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous industries, allowing for firm entry and …

Business cycles and start-ups across industries: An empirical analysis of German regions

A Konon, M Fritsch, AS Kritikos - Journal of Business Venturing, 2018 - Elsevier
We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with
business cycle variables. Using a unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find …